Jan Hruby

Jan Hruby (4 March 1915-18 June 1942) was a Czechoslovakian soldier who took part in Operation Anthropoid in 1942.

Biography
Jan Hruby was born in Kunovice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (present-day Czech Republic) on 4 March 1915, and he joined the Border Guard Battalion of the Czechoslovakian army in Trebisov in 1937. In 1940, Hruby fled to Hungary through Slovakia and headed to Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon before arriving in France. He served in the army of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile during the Battle of France in 1940, and he became a sergeant in October 1940 while training as a saboteur and parachutist in the United Kingdom. In April 1942, he was parachuted into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia with two other paratroopers, and they moved to Prague and joined forces with Adolf Opalka after failing to establish contact with the Czechoslovak Resistance. On 18 June 1942, the parachutists were besieged at the Cyril and Methodius Church by 800 German SS soldiers, and Hruby shot himself with the last bullet in his gun after being trapped in the crypt alongside three other parachutists.